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To: average joe who wrote (19569)	1/15/2012 11:27:38 AM
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Presented with "I believe Adam and Eve were literal people," 74% of respondents strongly agreed, respondents with graduate degrees were most likely to strongly disagree (16%) than respondents whose highest degree was a bachelor's degree (2%). It always just makes you pause to wonder that so many can accept something so irrational , doesn't it ? When it comes to the 6000yr old Earth idea at least the figures drop off by 1/2 for thats a big frog to swallow even for an brainwashed~from~birth evangelical from South Carolina . Obviously what "belief" is based on varies not independent of the subject/object reasoning which in the case of Adam & Eve the appeal lay in simple anthropomorphism and we all come from a mother & father . Again we have the most childlike primitive reasoning in operation that is observed in tribesman in the rainforests or outback that also held belief in the first "Mom & Dad" . This the easy way to think , easy to believe and never questioned or left out because its so easily believed . . In the case of the age of the earth it follows naturally that there would be less "young earthers" for even a primitive tribesman or child can get the drift that the world is very very old . It could be suggested that "God" is a mental~tool construct much like Tom Hank's soccer ball companion "Wilson" in the movie Castaway . Or at least the film depicts in a simplistic way how he paints a face on the ball , gives it a name & suddenly he does not feel so alone . This is just one man alone on an island which would be your small tribal groupings , as the world of man enlarges to the cosmopolitan state it reaches 2000yrs ago with expanded trading not just of goods but custom & thought over large regions , the idea of "Wilson" also enlarges to include that ideal of One Soccer Dad over all . Wilson is as good a name as any other , but word " God" was around alot earlier with its roots in the Aryan Sandskrit ..if i have the story right .

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